Elementary Teaching & Learning News
May/June 2019 Edition
Free Math Apps for Play and Exploration
News From Pernille Ripp on the Global Read Aloud
Overall information:
If you are new to the project, please read this post which has an overview of the information needed for this year https://theglobalreadaloud.com/2017/04/07/if-you-are-new-to-the-global-read-aloud-read-this-gra17/
Books to choose from
To see which books have been chosen, please go here https://theglobalreadaloud.com/2017/04/07/and-the-winners-are-global-read-aloud-choices-2017-gra17/
Please choose the book that will fit your students best, there is no age restriction on any of the books, so I encourage you to read them and choose your best fit.
Connect with others:
Edmodo groups have been set up as well, to join your Edmodo group go here for links https://theglobalreadaloud.com/2017/04/07/edmodo-groups-for-global-read-aloud-gra17/
The Facebook group continues to be active, to join it (and you can use it all year round for anything you need), go here https://www.facebook.com/groups/1677451162491208/
The hashtag to use on Twitter is #GRA17
As a reminder, the project runs from October 2nd to November 10th this year.
Lesson Ideas to Amp Up Stamina to Sustain Summer Reading
2. Have students set goals for the coming weeks of summer.
2. Host a book swap. Have students bring in and donate/swap books to stockpile for summer reading.
3. Have students create "go" bags of books for summer reading from your classroom library. You'll likely get most of them back, especially if you accompany the bag with a note of reminder to return them to you in the fall.
4.
- My pedagogical mission lately is to help students develop a question before answering it and to create a headache before offering them aspirin.
- Some people think I’m too interested in real world mathematics. The fact is I don’t think adjectives like “real-world” are all that meaningful. Instead, I try to make sure students are doing real work.